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The Stars Down to Earth

Selected by Andrew Hunt

Alan Bond, Brignell and Raimes, Gordon Cheung, Giles Corby, Deborah Crofts, Robin Dixon, Susannah Hewlett, Mandy Hudson, Daniel Lehan, Maslen and Mehra, Danny Pockets, David Saunders, Dawn Shorten, Ruth Solomons, Tomoya Yamaguchi.

24th June - 22nd July

Private View Friday 23rd June 2006 6.30-9.30

This year’s annual Bow Arts Trust exhibition, which opens to the public at East London’s Nunnery Gallery in Bow on Saturday June 24, has been selected by curator and art writer Andrew Hunt. The show, entitled ‘The Stars Down to Earth’, features the work of seventeen artists picked from amongst over ninety members of the Bow Arts Trust, and will run for one month, closing on July 22.

The exhibition includes diverse elements, from video documentation and sculpture to formal painting. The title of the show is taken from a collection of essays by Theodor Adorno, and was initially sparked by two separate works.

‘It was a real pleasure to select this year’s exhibition’ said Andrew Hunt. ‘And I was very lucky in that a large number of the artists offered up work for the exhibition. If there is a creative side needed in the selector’s role it is the ability to recognise links between works and to allow these qualities to be brought out of their own accord, rather than projecting any existing set of theoretical or formal criteria onto the situation.’

Bow Arts Trust Open Studios

The opening of the Nunnery show also coincides with the 10th annual Open studios of the Bow Arts Trust, where the work of some 90 artist members can be seen. This is one of the main art events in East London, and around 1500 people are expected to attend this year’s Open Studios, which is open to the public during the weekend of June 24-25.

About the curator

Since January 2006 Andrew has been Exhibitions Curator at the International Project Space, Birmingham, UK. His recent exhibitions include ‘Writing in Strobe’, Dicksmith Gallery (2006), John Russell ‘Geniess’, Norwich Gallery, (2005), and ‘Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity,’ Rockwell (2004). His publishing activities include the imprint Slimvolume, produced on a yearly basis since 2001. He is also Reviews Editor at Untitled, and a regular contributor to Frieze and a number of other journals.